What are the trends of the Information Age?
In the Information Age more jobs involve creating, managing and transerring information. This is a marked difference from the Industrial Age that preceded, where workers were involved in manufacturing of products. The global economy is increasingly built on information instead of goods and services. There are three trends that have significant implications for education:
1) A shift in demographics.
2) An acceleration of technology.
3) An ever-expanding base of available data through which to search, sift, sort, and select.
Educators must provide training to produce technologically literate students in order for students to gain successful employment once they leave school.
Great post! Students will need to compete globally with a technologically advanced world. If the education system doesn't teach and expand student knowledge of and with technology, this country will fall behind.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree that we need to prepare our students for a global economy as our world is becoming increasingly dependent on technology. It is important they are able to keep up with the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! It is so important to make our students fluent in this technologically dominated world, we must do everything we can so that they will one day be professionally marketable.
ReplyDeleteGreat Post. Preparing students for the future is our job:)
ReplyDeleteI completely agree! Just think how much better we would be in this class had we had technology embedded into our curriculum!
ReplyDeleteYou're right, teachers do need to produce technologically literate children. There are so many different careers that require students to be literate in many different areas of technology. If we don't teach students about technology they are going to be lost.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Information Age has been markedly different from the Industrial Age. It will be our job as teachers to educate students to use the technology we have available in this new age.
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